Newsletter

Every month in the lead up to publication we are planning to email out a newsletter to those of you who are interested in our project.

With over 20 years of research done we have collected a vast range of illustrations, photograph, quotes and anecdotes that will probably not make the final edit, but will be of interest to many people.

It the newsletter we plan to share with you:

Updates on the work we have done

Image of the month

Quotes

Contemporary newspaper cuttings

Player photographs and profiles

Recommended publications and websites

Excerpts from Fred Spiksley’s 1920 autobiography

Information on how you can pre-order the book

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“ Spiksley was always doing something, always getting goals. Just consider what he did in the Football Association Challenge Cup Competition in 1896. He had a hand in all of the goals scored at Southampton; against Sunderland, ‘The Team of all the Talents’, he made the opening for Bell and scored himself; and against Everton he was the chief means of 2 of Wednesday’s 4 goals. It was his clever cross to Brash which enabled that player to equalise in the first semi-final game with Bolton Wanderers while in the replay he scored 1 goal as well as scoring both Wednesday goals in the Final. ‘What a Winger’.”

“Spiksley’s control of the ball, his individuality, and his pluck for a man of such modest stature without much weight were amazing. Like Hodgetts, Fred Spiksley did his ball work with the outside of the right foot. In fact, Fred Spiksley could do almost anything he wanted with either foot, and he was a sure marksman. Spiksley as a football player was a wonder.”